"...This week, Mayhew is writing a lengthy and possibly immensely hyperbolic apology for advocating for a sport that "places Black bodies at disproportional risk".
"I recently led a piece in Inside Higher Ed titled 'Why America Needs College Football.'
I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion and pain this article has caused anyone, but specifically Black students in the higher education community and beyond," Mayhew wrote in a part two, published in Inside Higher Ed.
He continued, in an apology that was dripping with so much emotion that Reason suggested it could be satirical:
I learned that I could have titled the piece "Why America Needs Black Athletes." I learned that Black men putting their bodies on the line for my enjoyment is inspired and maintained by my uninformed and disconnected whiteness and, as written in my previous article, positions student athletes as white property...
The New York Times, perhaps bewildered by whether or not Mayhew was being serious and confused as to what, exactly to be offended by the most, then came out and publicly criticized the apology, noting that "such a dramatic public apology is obviously weird and bad."
"The obsequious tone of the groveling should be a red flag that there's something seriously awry with this mode of discussion," the Times wrote...Read all.
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